Cody McLeod Rogers is an American Filmmaker, Director, Producer, Screenwriter, and Composer from Coal City, Illinois. He is known for NEXT at the Kennedy Center (2022), Broadway's Leading Men (2024), Maybe It's Time (2024), The Story We Wrote (2023), The Informidable Death of My Mother (2024), and Broadway's Leading Ladies (2025). Rogers started his journey as a filmmaker at age 16 when he began his first production company. What started as small projects for local municipalities quickly grew to documentary work bringing him across North and Central America capturing stories from worker exploitation to climate change. Rogers attended American University in Washington D.C. where he received a B.A. in Film and Media Arts and minored in Music Performance. During this time, he worked many jobs ranging from Information Technology to dog-walking, to Door Staff at the local DC Improv Comedy Club. After landing a job as an Associate Producer at the Kennedy Center, he quickly rose to a senior-level Producer for the television series NEXT at the Kennedy Center. In 2025, Rogers transitioned to full-time freelance and running his production company, Foreground Productions.​

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Cody's work has been aired on PBS, the CW Network, and streamed on Amazon Prime. He has also collaborated with organizations such as The Kennedy Center, the National Park Service, and Hyatt among many others.  

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